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How to install and use different versions of ruby?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026120136 views
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I'm learning rails from different books that use different versions of both ruby and rails. Right now I have ruby 1.87 installed on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard (in ), but need to also use ruby 1.9 for a different rails application. Can anyone tell me how to make this work? I'm new to this, so as many …

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There are two major Ruby version managers out there from which you can choose: and RVM These allow you to keep multiple versions of Ruby on the same system. Once you've installed a version manager, and installed your own Ruby version, you won't mess…

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